Clera

Founding Engineer, Computer Vision & Robotics

United States
Salary
$120,000 - $200,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 26 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial automation team as its first engineer, building computer vision systems that understand manual work in factory settings. You will take perception from experimentation through reliable production deployment, starting with real-time quality inspection.

What You'll Do

  • Build perception capabilities for detection, classification, tracking, temporal understanding, and 3D vision.
  • Develop first-person vision systems that handle camera motion, changing viewpoints, occlusion, motion blur, and varied lighting.
  • Work with the technical leadership team to turn field failures into improved models, data, and evaluation.
  • Build geometric vision systems for calibration, localization, pose estimation, and coordinate transformations.
  • Train and debug PyTorch models using synthetic and real-world data.
  • Optimize low-latency inference and deploy systems on NVIDIA Jetson with TensorRT.
  • Deploy to factory floors and develop reusable perception infrastructure from real-world experience.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of experience in computer vision, robotics perception, or applied machine learning, including deploying perception systems beyond notebooks or lab environments.
  • Strong Python, PyTorch, and OpenCV skills, with experience building detection, classification, or tracking models.
  • Experience shipping real-time perception systems that work reliably in challenging physical environments.
  • Background in geometric vision, such as calibration, localization, pose estimation, or coordinate transformations.
  • Experience deploying to edge devices or optimizing production inference for low latency.
  • Comfort working directly in field settings and using real-world failures to improve models and data.
  • Experience with synthetic data and Sim2Real, SLAM or VIO, depth estimation, 3D reconstruction, CUDA or TensorRT, ROS2, robot manipulation, or robot learning is beneficial.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $120,000 to $200,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in the United States.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

CUDA · Computer Vision · ROS

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Standard for data science / ML roles

Machine Learning · PyTorch · Python

Common in data science / ML postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 465 open in Engineering. 399 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (197 of 465), LLM (195 of 465), TypeScript (183 of 465), React (145 of 465), Machine Learning (120 of 465), PostgreSQL (87 of 465), JavaScript (82 of 465)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Other openings for this role

3 open postings for this role in United States, first posted 16 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.

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